Aleksander Tamm-Seitz named 2026 Ruth & Norman Moore Visiting Professor

Aleksander Tamm-Seitz, AIA, NCARB, MArch/MUD ’05, will join the Sam Fox School for the spring 2026 semester as the Ruth & Norman Moore Visiting Professor. An award-winning architect and urban designer, Tamm-Seitz has worked with Morphosis Architects for two decades. His major projects included the O’Donnell Athenaeum Phase I and II at UT Dallas, the Beirut New Embassy Campus, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, and the Taubman Complex at Lawrence Technological University, among others. While at WashU, he will lead an architecture studio called The Morphosis Studio.

Aleksander Tamm-Seitz (AIA, NCARB) is an award-winning architect and urban designer at Morphosis Architects in Los Angeles, where he is an Associate Principal. He has over two decades of architectural experience designing, managing, and building projects around the world, including more than 35 projects at Morphosis Architects, where Tamm-Seitz worked with Pritzker Prize–winning architect Thom Mayne for over 19 years. His major projects include the O’Donnell Athenaeum Phase I and II at UT Dallas (2021–26), a regional planning project in the Middle East (2019–21), the Beirut New Embassy Campus (2015–25), the Perot Museum of Nature and Science (2008–12), the Taubman Complex at Lawrence Technological University (2012–16), and Centennial Tower in Singapore (2015–16).

In addition to his professional work, Tamm-Seitz maintains an active academic presence through lectures and university presentations and has previously taught design studio at SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture). Tamm-Seitz has a bachelor of science in design, cum laude, from Clemson University, and a master of architecture and a post-professional master of urban design from Washington University in St. Louis. He is licensed in California and a member of the national American Institute of Architects (AIA).